He must have told me he was going to kill me 10 times, said Wolf, 59.

Unbeknownst to the robber, Wolf had his own .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol hidden under a loose hanging shirt. And so there, on May 4, 2010, near the 1300 block of Eagles Way Court, Wolf had a decision before him that only a fraction of gun owners make.

For all the attention that is placed on the nations estimated 300 million firearms, most guns rest in cases, drawers and safes. Few are holstered. Few get used to actually stop a threat. Even armed soldiers and police officers often go entire careers without firing a shot on duty.

But Wolf is the kind of avid gun collector who had worked through in his head how he might react in exactly this situation. Even so, in that moment, he wondered.

Would he cower? Could he regain control quick enough? Was it worth the risk? Or would he get shot in the back walking away if he went along with the robbery?

Wolf began by playing along. He handed over his wallet. Then he asked if he could have his license back. The distraction gave Wolf the precious split second in a stick-up he needed to pull his own weapon, rack a round into the chamber and tell the robber to drop it.

I don’t think carrying a double action firearm and then having to rack it before being ready to fire is a good idea. If you pull it, be ready to use it, immediately especially if one already has a firearm at the ready against you, IMO.

This b_tch needs one of the yard signs which informs perps that the house is a gun-free zone. The female probably votes twice every election cycle, being sure to vote in VA for the democrip candidate and in Tennessee for whatever thing runs against a republicant.

For the average person, shooting someone is a very traumatic event. So is being robbed, raped, tortured, murdered and dismembered. Our society seems to have a vision of life without hardship or difficult choices. We have become so safe and prosperous that we can imagine such an existence, and think we can create it with endless rules and wishful thinking. We can’t.

I call BS on this one.
There should have been a round in the tube on a Glock double action. Second, when he pulled it, he should have emptied the entire magazine into the perp defending himself while doing society a big favor. Now, if this is true, the perp lives another day to do it again to an unarmed innocent, possibly killing them.

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posted on 04/28/2013 8:49:09 AM PDT
by lgjhn23
(It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)

First of all, the incident with Wolf is a good partial illustration of the advantages of concealed carry, even if the aggressor has his gun out, cocked and aimed.

I seriously suggest an exercise with a friend, and not with guns at all. (I like to use cap guns, because the pop really drives the point home.)

The idea is to “role play” a mugging. Importantly, the friend needs to be emotional enough to *imagine* that he is trying to mug you on an open city street. Acting is involved.

His priorities: He is scared, too. He wants money, not to shoot you. He does not want to be seen or captured. As soon as he is done he wants to flee. His attention is in several directions.

Your priorities: You want to draw your gun, while making sure it will fire, then you want to cap him. He does not know you have a gun.

What you want is an opening. At *any* time you get one, even when he is leaving, you can take it.

This is not an idle exercise, but teaches some very key points about the value of cc in a gunfight. And the dynamics of gunfights are so telling that the Nobel physicist Niels Bohr had his students performing timed gunfights, and reached some interesting conclusions.

Importantly, this lesson is even getting through to the criminals these days, because many more armed robberies are now beginning with “sucker punches” with fist or blunt object like a baseball bat, to disable the victim first, just in case he is armed.

We cannot even deal with our social problems. Even here the poor souls defending themselves and others moan and whine over the fact they defended themselves. I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut that the criminal attacking them would not have lost a moments sleep if he had killed them.

We all know the source of our social, political and economic difficulties and we cannot even name the source much less do anything about it.

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posted on 04/28/2013 9:03:41 AM PDT
by AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)

I dont think carrying a double action firearm and then having to rack it before being ready to fire is a good idea. If you pull it, be ready to use it, immediately especially if one already has a firearm at the ready against you, IMO.

It's probably state law.

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posted on 04/28/2013 9:10:29 AM PDT
by wastedyears
(I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)

Per the article, even the police chided Wolf for not already having a round chambered. And, after chambering a round, Wolf emptied his entire mag into the guy and then loaded a spare mag into his Glock .40 cal.

Data on the incidents of guns being used in self-defense vary widely from study to study. But only a tiny sliver of people use guns to kill someone engaged in a felony.

VPC has been playing up this angle lately, "if so few guns are actually used to stop violent crimes, why own one?" To this I say, "So what?" I have a fire extinguisher in my garage. I have never used it to fight a fire. In fact, I'd bet the vast majority of fire extinguishers hanging from walls across America have never been used to fight fires and I'm sure their owners, as am I, are perfectly happy with this. Doesn't mean I'm going to get rid of it.

Those commenting about Wolf pulling his weapon and racking it being BS didn’t read the full article. He handed the criminal his wallet and ASKED if he could just have his drivers license back. AS the criminal was apparently looking into the wallet, it gave Wolf the 2/3 seconds to rack. Smart move. See the advice the good Sheriff gave him.

I dont think carrying a double action firearm and then having to rack it before being ready to fire is a good idea. If you pull it, be ready to use it, immediately especially if one already has a firearm at the ready against you, IMO.

For sure - always one in the tube so the most you might need to do is thumb any safety off. My pocket pieces are "LEO Spec" in that they have no safety. Convenient but the longer trigger pull takes a bit to get used to and to be able to maintain "double-tap efficiency". Way too much can go wrong if you try to acquire it in a hurry and have to worry about chambering a round on top of it.

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posted on 04/28/2013 9:55:09 AM PDT
by trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)

Had Wolf shot the perp in the arm or leg, the perp might well have shot Wolf in the chest or head in return. Best to drop the perp asap with however many boolits it takes to stop the assault delivered as quickly as events permit. The night blindness after the first muzzle flash is also a real phenomenon, and probably why Wolf was not prosecuted for shooting the perp in the back.

DIXIE DERRINGER in .22 magnum. The .22lr cylinder is shaped differently, pinched in in the front more ... the frame will accomodate either .22lr or .22 magnum, but the cylinders must be longer than a .22lr only derringer.

I like to keep up with what the liberals are saying. Last night on PBS, the show Need to Know hosted by the ultra lib Ray Saurez had as guests three 2nd amendment expert scholars.

One was a woman, Joyce Lee Malcolm of George Mason Univ. Law School and I was expecting her to be the worst of them! Boy, was I wrong!

She was outstanding and put the 2 lib professors in their place with history and facts. She had them stuttering a couple times. She said owning guns is an ‘individual right’ and for the weak, old guns were an ‘equalizer’.

Here is one of her recent articles, and IIRC she has a book also.

Joyce Lee Malcolm: Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control

After a school massacre, the U.K. banned handguns in 1998. A decade later, handgun crime had doubled.[snip]

He (the perp) gets a government handout windfall, spends it all, is awaiting a next installment. He’s broke in the meantime, so decides to make a stop at the thug’s idea of a mobile ATM-another human. Potential cost of transaction in his mind-the human’s life. No big deal, after all, the government itself has sanctioned his receiving free money from the extortion of those who worked for it.

Well and truly stated ... sadly. Look what America has become with democrips at the helm too often. I wonder, will anyone realize democrips want America to look like Detroit? Maddy Halfbright let the cat out of the bag long ago, but folks just weren’t paying attention to anything but the lies from the media, enemy of the Republic.

The Glock is striker fired, not double action. He probably did not have a round in the chamber because Glocks do not have an external safety. For this reason, some people choose to carry them with a magazine inserted but with no round chambered because they fear an accidental discharge. Of course, if makes more sense to have a round chambered and ready but some people choose not to do so for the reason stated.

That really won’t help in this case, as you are not practicing your quick draw or shooting someone, but *acting*, trying to figure out *realistically* the time intervals when you can use your weapon when faced off with an armed mugger.

Even both being armed with bananas (the Glock .40 banana), will work in this case.

The emphasis is where the mugger is focused, what he is paying attention to, when he is vulnerable to you, how much time to get your banana, make sure it is off safe, etc.

You are trying to tactically calculate fractions of a second for advantage. You are looking for an opening, like a boxer.

Jeff Dunn did a great reveiw of the Charter Dixie Derringer. I have carried the North American Arms version as back-up for years. The NAA version has ‘rest’ positions between the firing chambers, so the weapon can be carried with five but the hammer resting in a non-chamber positon. To fire, pull the hammer back and a chamber rotates into position.

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